"I've just got to start believing in myself a little bit more. But I would love to do it. It would be such a challenge – facing a bigger ball and bigger bowlers. But I'd have to look at myself after the second XI games and say: 'Can you handle this?'"

Taylor is a veteran of 71 One Day Internationals and 46 Twenty20 matches with England, and was a member of the team that retained the Ashes in 2008.

She leaves for India on Thursday with the England women's team ahead of their bid to defend the World Cup they won in 2009.

Should women be allowed to play in men's cricket?

Mark Lane, the national women's coach, is promoting Taylor's switch to men's cricket and Taylor added she could play some "early season games for the MCC boys".

"Someone at Sussex approached Mark and asked if there was anyone who could keep [wicket] and Laney, being Laney, was quick to back me. It's daunting but it's brilliant that he backs me to do it in men's cricket. The MCC also approached him about me playing for them."